A Lean and Hungry Look

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Location:

Salt Lake City,UT,USA

Member Since:

May 06, 2006

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

Won Park City Marathon (tiny field, slow course, no purse) and Utah Grand Slam in 2006

Marathon: 2:37:04 (St. George 2009)

Short-Term Running Goals:

Train for as solid a race in Boston 2011 as my schedule will allow.  Accept the fact that there isn't room in my life to train for a breakthrough performance and do the best I can under the circumstances.

Long-Term Running Goals:

Lose the all-or-nothing mentality and start using running as an outlet instead of an additional source of stress.

Personal:

I'm married with 4 kids (2 boys, 2 girls) and live in Salt Lake City, where I work as a real estate attorney. 

Let me have men about me that are fat,
Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

"Julius Caesar," Act I, scene 2, 190-95

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
18.422.000.000.000.000.000.0020.42
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6.210.000.000.000.000.000.006.21

Back on the blog after a long hiatus due initially to injury (SI joint problems that lead to disappointing SGM in 2011, followed by neuroma in left foot, which continues to the present) and then to lack of interest in tracking my workouts and a decision to spend some time running only for enjoyment.  I'm back on the wagon now as I start training for Ogden.

Day 1 of Ogden training plan.  I'm planning to use the Hansons method this time, just to change things up and to keep my mileage a little lower.  Life is busier than it was when I last trained hard for a marathon and running falls lower on my priority list.  The objective this time around is to put together a solid block of marathon training and to make it to the starting line healthy, not broken down and emaciated like the last time.  I've taken up skate skiing in the past year or so and am finding considerable enjoyment in a new sport, so I may take the liberty of replacing a run workout here and there with a ski workout.  I'm hopeful that spending more time on an activity that uses hips and core (and having done so consistently for a couple of months in the lead-up to this training block) will help stave off the back problems.  We shall see.

I'm running in Hokas now, as that seems to be the only option that works with the neuroma.  While not a permanent or perfect solution to the problem, it is working for now, so I'll stick with it.

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6.210.000.000.000.000.000.006.21

Easy loop (Walker-Holly Lane) at 6 a.m.  Green air quality so far today, but hard to imagine it will continue for long.  Headed to St. George tomorrow for a soccer tournament.  Can't wait to run in the desert behind the condo.

Health: legs are predictably sore after running sporadically for the past few months and skiing more, but nothing more than that at this point.  Need to keep an eye on my back and make sure to be consistent about working my core.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
6.002.000.000.000.000.000.008.00

In St. George for soccer.  Ran back in the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve, my favorite place on earth to run (so far).  Ran on old SITLA road (now blocked to vehicular traffic) to entrance to Reserve, then continued on Millcreek trail to Middleton Power Line trail to Mustang Pass and back.  Final mile in 5:40 (downhill).  This is God's country.

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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTrainer 1 MilesTrainer 2 MilesRacer MilesTotal Distance
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